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Haider Ali

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Tweet YouTube video with Google Chrome Extension

Posting a youtube video on Twitter seems a daunting task as it involve

  • Downloading the Video
  • Cropping videos to 2 minutes and 20 seconds or less.
  • The minimum resolution for Twitter videos is 32 x 32 and the maximum resolution is 1920 x 1200 or 1200 x 1900
  • Supported formats are MP4 and MOV on the Twitter mobile apps and, on the web, MP4 with H264 format with AAC audio
  • The maximum file size is 512MB
  • Upload each video individually one by one

Thanks to clippost.io Google Chrome Extension. It takes care of all of above requirements and convert full YouTube video into video tweet thread on Twitter with just a click. All you have to do it install and activate the extension.

Please follow below step by step guide to install and activate Clippost Google Chrome Extension on your browser

Install Extension

Go to Google Chrome Web Store and search clippost or directly visit Clippost Extension

Enable Extension

This extension require activation. Please follow below steps to activate the extension in Google Chrome browser

  1. Go to http://clippost.io and LOGIN WITH TWITTER
  2. Go to top right click your profile picture to and select Chrome Extension
  3. Enable chrome extension (If you have already enabled it just reload your page)

How to use Extension

Clippost extension provide controls to post video tweet threads. Go to any youtube video page and you will see below controls

You can select start and end time and click tweet icon to send tweet.

Note:

  1. If video length is more than 2 minute and 20 seconds it will automatically convert it into video tweet thread
  2. Clippost currently only support videos which are under 1 hour duration
  3. After posting tweet via extension you can visit My Video section to check status of video (i.e. processing cropping downloading etc)

If you get into any issue please do let us know at info@clippost.io

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Andy Piper • Edited

How do you deal with copyright infringements? (especially related to football!)